Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the American War of Independence and the Boer War. Pp. xiv+272(last blank), 2 full page illustrations (1 double-page) full page chart, appendices, notes, indices; highlight2 demy 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on..... More
Together with extracts from the diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland a prisoner of war at Pretoria. With portrait, maps and plans. Pp. xiv+410(last blank)+[6](advertisements, last blank)+32(publisher's catalogue), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, text maps & plans, plus large folding map at end printed in red, brown & black; bound by..... More
Adventures of a Young War Correspondent. Pp. x+310(last blank), frontispiece and 8 plates, text maps, bibliography, notes, index; small med. 8vo; qr. textured white paper, spine lettered in red, blue papered boards; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Da Capo Press, Philadelphia, 2015. First edition..... More
Pp. xxxii+234, 24 plates, text maps and illustrations, reference notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, lower edge lightly bumped; dust wrapper, lower edge slightly bruised; leaves quite browned and foxed; HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 1999. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his..... More
Pp. xiv+386, 16 plates, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dark grey cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a little browned and lightly foxed; John Murray, London, 1997. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his book label on upper pastedown. More
Pp. xxxii+356(last blank), 11 text maps, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, verso lightly foxed; some offsetting and light foxing; Brassey's (U.K.), London, 1992. New revised edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. More
Australian Involvement in the South African Conflict of 1899-1902. Pp. xii+236, 8 plates, full page map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle flecked; dust wrapper, edges lightly and creased, with splits at head and tail of backstrip and top edge of..... More
Pp. [x]+82(last blank), text illustrations; small cr. 35o; black cloth, lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle sprung, edges lightly rubbed, fore-corners faintly bruised, spine faded to brown; free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing; Yea Chronicle, Yea, Victoria, 1960. First edition, limited to 100 copies. *From the library..... More
The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith 1899-1900. Pp. xviii+398; frontispiece and 32 plates, text illustrations, 11 full page maps, bibliography, index; qr. red cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in brown, a trifle soiled, brown papered boards; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and silverfished, the backstrip lightly browned, faint sticker mark..... More
Colour photography by Gerald Hoberman, Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, London. Pp. lviii+240, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, appendices, bibliography, small demy 4to; dust wrapper; Constantia Classics Publications, Sandton, South Africa, 1982. Standard edition, being one of 1500 numbered copies. More
Pp. [iv]+608(last blank, index; cr. 4to; green boards, lettered in gilt, edges lightly worn and rubbed, upper hinge slightly shaken; publisher's sticker on upper pastedown, lightly offset on upper free endpaper, lower edges of leaves lightly shelf worn; John Burridge, Perth, n.d.[1982]. Facsimile reprint. *First published by A. J. Mullett..... More
A Boer journal of the Boer War. Preface by General The Right Honorable J. C. Smuts. Pp. xii+332(last blank), index; cr. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, slightly worn, laminate on front panel lifting slightly; leaves browned; Southern Book Publishers, Halfway House, RSA, 1993. South African edition, second impression. *First published..... More
Parts 1-XVIII, complete. Parts consecutively paginated 1-144, with full page coloured portraits; impl 4to; stiff green or red printed paper wrappers, worn and soiled (some Parts more than others), edges faded or browned, stapled, supplier's stamp on the upper wrapper of Parts V-IX, Parts XI-XVIII, Part I backstrip split, Part..... More
Major Charles Joseph Ross DSO. A definitive study of his life. Pp. xxiv+200, illustrated in colour and black & white (some full page), text maps, erratum slip loosely inserted at p. 130, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; The Caps & Flints Press, Melbourne, 2002..... More
Pp. xviii+358, frontispiece portrait plus 26 plates, text illustrations, appendices, index; gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth, lightly marked and worn, cloth a trifle bubbled, fore-corners slightly bruised; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, endpapers offset, some foxing, mainly to outer leaves and edges; John Murray, London, 1919. Second..... More
Preface by C. E. Pereira, Note by Colonel C. P. Heywood (noting the author's untimely death). Pp. xii+394, 7 folding maps (some coloured); roy. 8vo; navy cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt & blind, silver, gilt & red insignia to upper board, fore-corners lightly bruised; uncut and partly unopened; bookplate..... More
With a description of the operations in the Aden Hinterland. Pp. xiv+272(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, tissue guard, 18 plates, text illustrations, appendices; demy 8vo; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly flecked, lower fore-corners bruised, lower fore-corner of upper board faded, small hole in cloth of lower board; t.e.g.;..... More
The correspondence of Ralph Verney, 1900-1916. Edited by David Verney. Pp. x+208(last blank), 16 plates, full page sketch map, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper;Leo Cooper, 1989. First edition. *Letters from the Boer War and the First World War. More
His life and diaries. With a Preface by Marshal Foch. In two volumes. Pp. xiv+364+viii+390, both volumes with frontispiece portrait and 7 plates, one full page map in Volume I, index Volume II; med. 8vo; black & green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle warped, lightly..... More